Spotlight
Dr. Katarzyna Marciniak to Deliver a Public Lecture at Lancaster University, UK
Faculty member Dr. Katarzyna Marciniak is invited by Migrancy Research Group and the Centre for Gender and Women's Studies at Lancaster to present a public lecture at Lancaster University, UK in February 2010. She will present her lecture titled "Digital Rage: Anti-Immigrant Activism in the US" and share her research related to her current book-in-progress, Immigrant Rage.
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News
Quotidiana by Alumnus Patrick Madden Published by University of Nebraska Press
Mostly written during his doctoral studies at Ohio University (1999-2004), Quotidiana includes essays that have been published in the Best Creative Nonfiction and the Best American Spiritual Writing anthologies. More information: http://www.english.ohiou.edu/alumni/ read more >>
PhD Candidate Nathan Shepley Published in the Fall 2009 Issue of Composition Studies
Nathan Shepley's article "Places of Composition: Writing Contexts in Appalachian Ohio," appears in the fall 2009 issue of Composition Studies, 37.2. read more >>
PhD Candidate Melanie Lee Published in NCTE Journal
PhD candidate Melanie Lee recently published her article titled, "Rhetorical Roulette: Does Writing Faculty Overload Disable Effective Response to Student Writing?" It appears in the December 2009 issue of NCTE's Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 37.2. read more >>
Student News
Announcement: New issue of Sphere available
The new issue of the student journal Sphere is now available. read more >>
Members of Sigma Tau Delta receive honors
Jennifer Dorsey, Krista Baddour and Matt Townsley were recently honored by the International English Honor Society, Sigma Tau Delta. read more >>